Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-11

with head of IGNATIUs DoNNELLY.
blonde hair, which grows thick and
Is generally worn a triHe longer than
the regulation style. In height he is
almost 5 feet Z inches and weighs,
l should think, 24O pounds He is
well preserved, and in reality don't appear to
DE much over 40 years of age. His wife is a
pleasant faced lady, who resembles her hus-
band in many respects. She is remarkably
fine musician and devout Roman Catholic
but In these two respects is very unlike her
superbly educated husband, who is neither.
lhey have three children. The oldest, Igna-
tlus, Jr., is doctor and practices in ST
raul The youngest is a lawyer and the
other child is married daughter, and she 70
sides in st. Louis.
Mr.. Donnelly is well known as a politician.
He was formerly Republican, but is now n
Democrat. During the war he was governor
or Minnesota for time, and later was lien
tenant governor for four years. He has
served i'll the state senate five years. subse
quenty representing Minnesota in congress
for period of six years. Mr.. Donnely's ad
mlrers boastfully refer to the fact that he
spoke on straight stretch in congress ouce
Tor SIX mortal hours He is a brilliant
speaker, and is one Of the most pleasing and
entertaining stump orators in the west. His
able, and his repartee is as bright as a flash Of
lightning. Once when he was delivcripg
powerful political peroration some one def
antly hurled head Of cabbage at him. H.
paused second and said: Gentlemen, I orlv
asked your ears; don't care for your heedsr'
lie was not bothered any further during the
remainder of his speech
MIR. Donnelly's library is the finest in the
state. In addition to the ordinary books of n |
fine library he has collected great many
curious things in the preparation of his diff |
ferent works. He has been working almost /,
steadily on his Bacon cipher for five or six |
years. In speaking of this work he said to |
me: Il can assure you that the Bacon cpher
In the Shakespeare plays is a reality, aud viii
be demonstrated to be such within, a sbo,;
ume. am working steadily at it-elaborat-
ing by rule a coherent and intensely inter
esting narrative. l feel sure of having tlp
story ready for the printers by July at the
latest" In explanation of Mr.. Donnelly's re-
marks it Is necessary to give an outline of
what he proposes to do. He claims to hive
discovered cipher in the Shakespeare plays
which prove that they were written by Sin
FRANCIS Bacon, and says the publication of
his book will stamp Bacon the one conspicu
ous figure of mankind
Five years ago Mr.. Donnelly began mn
aveling the mystery of the cipher.n II
Possesses Photographic copy of the very
earliest folio edition of the Shalesperian
plays, which was issued seven years after the
ieath OF Shakespeare, or about the year 1928
he has almost worn out the book which he
aas pored over for so long time. Mr.. Don
ieiiy Is convinced that the main principle o.
me mystic cipher" is based upon the pagin.
II the 1923 edition. The cipher story. h,
'laims, was written by Bacon, intelligently
and the plays were written I.
MI In" as it We're. He thinks the way H.,
work was done was marvellous, and that hi
elaboration will mark Bacon's work as one O
he wonders of the world.
The collection on different pages of tn
words "Francis,' Bacon" "Nicholas,n "Ba
on's son." etc. Henry the Fourth, act ii
Genes l, 2, 4, for instance), first satisfied hin
hat there was some cipher behind it all, am
lis investigations proved that these occur
enees were unparalleled in any other worl
nd could not be mere condolences. He wa,
urther convinced that there was some hidde,
tory IN the text of the plays 10y the repeated
ccurrences of "St. Albans." the country
ome Of Bacon, of Sprays inn," where Ra
on had his lodgings, and the fact that STRAIT
ord, the home of Shakespeare, was nowher,
lentioned After long and patient invest
alton Mr.. Donnelly discovered, on counting
ne words on each page, that they were the ,
iultiples OF the pages on which they were
ound To illustrate, Mr.. Donnelly discovered |
nat: ,
Page s. Henry the Fourth, So times ISL, !
nd the s7lst word is no other than Bacon
Page So, Henry the Fourth, Sc times 4-22i :
nd the 2aith word is Francis :
Page 81, Henry the Fourth 81 times 12 SIS
nd the 64Sth word is Nicholas Z
And so m, m n inday3,;to n y, - n
xtent. Many other significant words proved a
lvariably to be the multiples of the pages on !
hich they appeared. Mr.. Donnelly is !,
unraveling the tcipher mys-
ny, !" and he has had large sheets Of paper h
'ecially ruled to order on which he is work Z
g out a coherent narrative Each page con- T
ms two columns of words, and is the result d
arithmetical calculations based on the .
'ipher." Every word in these columns is =
rived primarily from the same root, and in b
planning the system Mr.. Dunne!ly used c,